Russell Lasson
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I would use the color corrector like I mentioned before. Just because it’s broadcast safe, doesn’t mean that it looks right.
It’s possible that even that won’t help too much if the colors were clipped by the camera.
See what you can do though.
(look at the FCP manual if you need some help on limiting the color range to just the color you want to change)
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I use flip4mac.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
On a Mac:
USB 2 = 20-35MB/sec (depending on the position of the moon)
Firewire400 = 30-40MB/sec
Firewire800 = 40-80MB/sec (depending on the drive)-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
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I would put a 3 way color corrector on the clips and use it to isolate those colors. It will take a little playing with to get it right. Then desaturate the oranges so they aren’t as bright.
Apple’s Color would do nicely also. But the key is to bring down the orange colors so they don’t blast out so much.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I would try to figure out which drives 1 and 4 are and then try to see if they even spin up if you put them in an external enclosure. They won’t mount on you desktop, but you should be able to see them from disk utility.
I’d first contact ATTO to see if taking the drives out of the RAID and connecting them to OS X directly might interfere with the RAID info on the drive.
It’s not fun, but good luck!
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I couldn’t see your screen shot, but what drives show up in the ATTO utility?
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
[John Ruddy] “On big one that I can’t seem to find any info on is the fact that sequence playback stops as soon as I click anywhere in the timeline window. I’m used to being able to perform any sort of edit (moving clips, changing edit points etc) on the fly without stopping playback in Vegas. Seems strange to me that FCP can’t do this. “
That’s normal. Sounds like a cool feature in Vegas. How much does it cost again?:)
Under Help – Feedback you can submit this as a feature request.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
[Jeff Coleman] “There are many things about FCP that I prefer over Avid, but speed and media management aren’t on that list. Do you think they’ll ever be?”
As long as AVID is building hardware acceleration, I think it will always be a “faster” edit system. That’s what they do. It’s their market.
Apple’s market is to sell a computer that works well on their own hardware acceleration boxes (MACS!!!!) Simple. Easy. And not as fast as AVID. But people are still buying it so something is working.
As far as media management goes, there are some improvements that need to be made. And while there are some nice things about AVID’s closed media management, there are some really nice things about Apple’s open architecture. It does need some work to make it more stable and reliable.
Any comparing adding 720P drop frame to adding hardware acceleration doesn’t make much sense to me.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
[Jeff Coleman] “But if you and your clients are used to AVID playback and rendering, then your priorities are probably different.”
That’s correct for the majority of FCP users. There are things that AVID does better than FCP, hardware acceleration is a big one. That’s why there is such a price difference.
[Jeff Coleman] “Isn’t AJA using hardware acceleration in their new IO box? “
The IOHD converts everything in and out to ProRes so that the computer doesn’t have to do that. But it doesn’t make it so you can play back more clips in realtime in a timeline.
[Jeff Coleman] “Hardware acceleration must make sense for at least somebody.”
Exactly, just not FCP users. That’s not the core market of FCP users. They would love to have hardware acceleration, but they wouldn’t want the price tag associated with it.
[Jeff Coleman] “The cumulative software costs for FCP over the last four years have approached or exceeded the costs of a new Media Composer today.”
But what was the price tag of a Media Composer four years ago?
[Jeff Coleman] “There are more quality freelance AVID editors here than quality FCP editors. “
It’s the opposite here in Utah.
Apple isn’t going to sell of the ProApps.
Hardware acceleration if for people who have more money than time. That is not the case for the vast majority of FCP users. Most FCP users can’t drop $50k-$150k+ on a system because their clients can’t afford to pay that much.
If you need more hardware acceleration than you’re getting with RTextreme, then go buy something that will give it to you.
I would love to have a faster edit system with super realtime effects, but there are other places where I need to spend my money.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I remember looking at those samples on your website and thinking how cool they are. Once again, nice job on those.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT